Tue Jan 02 13:02:19 GMT 2018

For more information, see our conference website:
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/womenandnewhollywoodRecent decades have witnessed no shortage of critical or academic
writing on the industrial upheaval and creative innovations of New
Hollywood (1967-80). But as scholarship has shaped the era, it has done
so around a very narrow set of concerns, the overriding one casting New
Hollywood as an era of great directors, which, by default, has meant an
era of “great men.” Such a vision relies on the kind of identification
of creativity with masculinity that Geneviève Sellier has discussed in
relation to the French New Wave, and its construction has required a
marginalisation, erasure even, of the creative labour of countless women
practitioners.
In reality, the late ‘60s and ‘70s saw women begin to re-enter Hollywood
production in numbers never before seen. While achieving nothing close
to real parity, women nevertheless wrote, edited, designed, and produced
many of the era’s most influential films. Most of these contributions
have been, at best, paid lip service, but more often overlooked almost
completely.
For example, one of New Hollywood’s iconic films, /Bonnie and Clyde/, is
regularly recognized for its innovative editing – Dede Allen arguably
changed the style of Hollywood filmmaking forever. And yet, Allen is
marginalised within discourses that discount women’s contributions and
privilege the roles of men like Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty.
Media Studies at Maynooth University and the Irish Research Council are
happy to announce the conference Women and New Hollywood, to be held at
Maynooth Unversity on 29-30 May, 2018.
The conference will endeavour to excavate and reassess the various roles
that women’s creative labour played in shaping the New Hollywood era
across all facets of production and within the broader cultural context.
We hope to challenge the dominant discourse around New Hollywood, which
is, among other things, heavily gendered in its bias towards a
creativity, an innovation, and a labour that continue to be framed as
almost entirely male.
To that end we invite proposals on any aspect of Women and New
Hollywood, including but not limited to:
·women practitioners – analysing the work of specific editors,
designers, directors, writers, producers, etc.;
·how the work of particular women of the ‘70s has influenced later
Hollywood filmmakers;

·actors behind the camera;

·women in charge – charting the rise of the first wave of women
executives and studio heads and their influence on later eras of Hollywood;
·the relationship between women in production and women’s representation
on screen;

·women’s film criticism during the era;
·women, New Hollywood, and second-wave feminism;

·historiography & institutional memory – how contemporary institutions
such as publishers, archives, or film studies departments perpetuate or
challenge the marginalisation of New Hollywood women;
·theorizing the ‘70s – through a contemporary lens or by revisiting ‘70s
feminist theory.
Furthermore, while the main topic of the conference is Hollywood
filmmaking, we recognize that artistic women have often been impelled to
work across creative spheres. So we are also open to proposals on the
following, especially where links can be made to the conference’s main
topic:

·independent women filmmakers;
·women in television;
·women working in other national film industries.

We are accepting submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted
panels of three papers each. In either case, please include abstracts of
no more than 300 words and brief biographies for each presenter (100
words). Pre-constituted panels should also include a brief rationale
statement (250 words). In keeping with the spirit of the conference, we
would like to discourage all-male panels. Proposals should be submitted
in one email to (WomenNewHollywood /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(WomenNewHollywood /at/ gmail.com)> by 12 January 2018. Participants
will be notified by the selection committee before the end of January 2018.
Further queries can be directed to the email address above or to one of
the conference organizers: Aaron Hunter ((aaron.hunter /at/ mu.ie)
<mailto:(aaron.hunter /at/ mu.ie)>) or Martha Shearer ((martha.shearer /at/ kcl.ac.uk)
<mailto:(martha.shearer /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>).
/Maynooth// is a university town, located approximately 30 minutes by
train from Dublin city centre. It is home to a historic castle, the Duke
of Leinster’s former estate, and lively pubs and restaurants.
Accommodation will be available on campus and in local hotels/

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